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CONFEDERATE    STATES    OF    AMERICA, 

Subsistence  Department. 

/Regulations  of  Subsistence  Department  other  than  those  already 
printed  in  Army  Regulations,  with  dale  of  Order. 

January  14, 1862.  Chaplain's  rations  either  commuted  or  drawn.  If 
commuted,  allowed  at  twenty-five  cents  per  diem  while  with  their  com- 
mands, and  at  sixty  cents,  if  detached. 

March  27, 1 862.  Commissaries  are  not  allowed  the  expenses  of  officers 
or  others  sent  to  the  seat  of  government  for  the  transaction  of  business. 

April  9,  1862.  Field  commissaries  are  not  allowed  to  employ  citizen 
clerks  or  assistants. 

April  28,  1862.  Eation  reduced  to  one  pound  of  beef  or  a  half  pound 
of  bacon  or  pork ;  flour  and  meal  not  to  exceed  one  pound  and  a  half  of 
either. 

May  31,  1862.  Rations  allowed  to  men  in  the  Njtre  and  Mining  De- 
partment. 

September  8,  1862.  Commissaries  ordered  to  transfer  hides  to  quarter- 
masters. 

September  9,  1862.  Commissaries  ordered  to  return  all  barrels  and 
sacks  to  the  officer  from  whom  they  draw  subsistence  stores.  To  pay 
seventy-five  cents  for  each  barrel,  and  one  dollar  and  twenty-five  cents 
for  each  sack  they  fail  to  return. 

Sept.  13,  1862.  Commutation  due  furloughed  men,  or  other  soldiers 
whose  rations  are  due,  and  may,  according  to  Regulations,  be  commuted, 
to  be  paid  at  the  rate  of  thirty-three  cents  per  diem.  The  account  to  state 
the  length  of  time,  date  and  amount,  and  circumstances  under  which  the 
commutation  was  made,  to  be  certified  by  commanders  of  companies,  or 
commissioned  officers  under  whose  orders  the  soldier  was  at  the  time  the 
rations  became  due. 

September  13,  1862.  Regimental  commissaries  authorized  to  transfer 
funds  in  their  hands  to  brigade  or  post  commissaries. 

Sept.  23,  1862.  Commanding  officers  required  to  examine  promptly 
the  returns  of  their  commissaries,  whether  the  issues  were  made  by  direc- 
tion of  their  predecessors  in  command  or  by  their  own  direction. 


October  17,  1862.  Officers  required  to  pay  cash  for  subsistence  stores, 
and  allowed  to  purchase  only  such  articles  as  are  a  part  of  the  regular 
ration  issued  to  soldiers  at  the  time. 

October  22,  1862.  Officers  prohibited  from  sending  persons  for  funds 
when  the  money  can  be  sent  by  express. 

November  25, 1862.  Commutation  due  sick  and  wounded  in  hospitals 
allowed  at  one  dollar  per  ration,  and  attendants  at  the  cost  of  the  ration 
at  the  post.    To  date  from  November  1st,  1862. 

December  9,  1 862.  Commissaries  receiving  beeves  will  deliver  to  the 
officer  from  whom  they  draw  supplies,  hides,  corresponding  in  number 
with  the  beeves  killed.  The  issuing  commissary  to  transfer  them  to  the 
quartermaster. 

April  1,  1863.  Price  of  beef  hides  transferred  under  General  Orders  of 
September  8th,  1862,  and  paid  by  quartermasters  to  commissaries,  will  be 
at  the  rate  of  five  cents  per  pound  for  green,  and  ten  cents  per  pound  for 
dry  hides,  in  the  Trans-Mississippi  Department.  For  all  beef  hides  east 
of  the  Mississippi,  thirty  cents  per  pound. 

April  18,  1863.  Issue  of  whiskey,  except  in  cases  of  extraordinary 
fatigue  and  exposure,  prohibited. 

May  12,  1863.  Attendants  and  others  in  hospitals,  except  sick  and 
wounded,  are  allowed  the  same  ration  as  soldiers  in  the  field,  to  be  issued, 
if  the  commissary  can  issue  in  kind;  if  not,  to  be  commuted  at  sixty  cents 
per  ration  on  certificate  of  surgeon  as  to  dates  and  facts. 

May  16,  1863.  Hospital  rations  to  sick  and  disabled  soldiers  com- 
muted at  one  dollar  and  twenty-five  cents  per  ration,  in  field  or  general 
hospitals. 

May  16,  1863.     Hospital  laundresses  allowed  one  ration  per  diem. 

May  29,  1863.  Commissary  sergeants  allowed  to  regiments  to  be  paid 
twenty  dollars  per  month  out  of  quartermaster's  funds  on  the  pay  roll. 

June  4,  1863.  Pay  allowed  men  detailed  at  posts,  or  stations  without 
troops,  or  in  counties,  towns  or  government  workshops  at  three  dollars 
per  day,  in  lieu  of  all  commutation,  to  be  paid  by  the  departments  in 
which  the  men  are  detailed.  When  serving  in  the  field  as  clerks,  at  one 
dollar  and  twenty-five  cents  per  diem.  To  take  effect  1st  January,  and 
continue  to  31st  December  1863.  In  Subsistence  Bureau,  to  be  paid  on 
Form  21,  which  form  must  be  approved  by  the  commanding  officer. 

June  17,  1863.  Ration  allowed  soldiers  in  movement  or  at  work,  half 
a  pound  of  bacon  or  salt  pork.     Stationary  troops,  a  third  of  a  pound. 

June  27,  1863.  Pay  allowed  sub-agents  of  district  commissaries  to  be 
fixed  by  the  district  commissary,  subject  to  the  approval  of  the  Chief  C. 
S.  of  the  state. 


July  8,  1863.  Commutation  of  rations  to  men  upon  furlough  not  to 
be  paid  until  they  rejoin  their  commands,  excepting  those  on  sick  and 
wounded  furloughs. 

July  8,  1863.  Rations  to  be  issued  to  discharged  men  delayed  at  way 
hospitals. 

July  17,  1863.  One  ration  per  day  allowed  detailed  soldiers  in  ord- 
nance workshops  or  arsenals,  who  receive  three  dollars  or  less  per  day, 
to  be  issued  on  returns  similar  to  those  used  for  hospitals,  and  to  be  paid 
for  by  the  Ordnance  Department.  The  issuing  commissary  to  account 
for  the  funds  received  from  such  issues. 

July  27,  1863.  When  the  supply  of  salt  is  adequate,  and  fresh  meat  is 
issued  oftener  than  thrice  a  week,  the  salt  ration  will  be  fixed  at  three 
quarts  to  one  hundred  rations. 

July  27,  1863.  Commanding  officers  have  no  authority  to  alter  or  fix 
the  ration  established  by  the  Secretary  of  War. 

July  29,  1863.  Citizens  and  detailed  men  acting  as  clerks  in  the  Com- 
missary Department,  and  capable  of  performing  military  duty,  to  have 
their  places  filled  by  non-conscripts  or  disabled  soldiers. 

August  1 ,  1863.  Assistant  brigade  commissaries  to  make  sales  to  offi- 
cers, pay  commutation  accounts,  and  perform  such  other  duty  as  may  be 
assigned  them  by  the  brigade  commissary. 

September  7,  1863.  Sugar  ration  reduced  to  six  pounds  to  one  hun- 
dred rations. 

L.  B.  NORTHROP, 

Commissary  General. 


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